Sustaining Fictions Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation, and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible

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ISBN: 9780567027092 | 0567027090
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Copyright: 11/1/2008

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Sustaining Fictions considers the viability of the vocabularies of literary, midrashic, and translation theory for speaking about retelling.

Preface	p. ix
Speaking The World Into Being	p. 1
From Moses to Moses, There is None Like Moses	p. 1
The Three Dimensions: Approach, Stance, and Filter	p. 5
The Three Paradigms: Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation	p. 8
Creation In The Image	p. 16
Reception Theory and Literary Afterlives	p. 16
Talking about the Literary Afterlife of the Bible	p. 22
The Art of Biblical Retelling	p. 25
According to The Likeness	p. 38
Literary Criticism and the Interrelationships of Texts	p. 38
Imitation	p. 38
Invention	p. 42
Influence	p. 44
Intertextuality	p. 50
Naming The Animals	p. 59
Intentiveness in Retelling	p. 59
Intentional Interrelationships	p. 61
Naming the Animals	p. 81
Hypertexts Generate Hypertexts	p. 89
Is it in Heaven?	p. 92
Midrash and Literature	p. 92
What is Midrash? The Two Faces of Midrash: Halakhah and Aggadah	p. 93
The Nature of the Aggadah	p. 96
The Inner Logic of Aggadic Midrash	p. 101
What is the Midrash of the Literary Theorists?	p. 107
Postmodern Midrash	p. 111
Midrash and Indeterminacy?	p. 114
It is Not in Heaven: The Problems with the Midrash of the Literary Theorists	p. 116
What is Modern Midrash?	p. 125
The Jewish Question	p. 127
The Word is Very Near	p. 136
From Aggadah to Halakhah: Co-opting the Vocabulary of Midrash	p. 136
The Middot: Principles of Rabbinic Exegesis	p. 139
The Viability of Co-opting (Anew) the Vocabulary of Midrash	p. 157
Let Us Confound Their Language	p. 160
The Literary Afterlife: Where Retelling and Translation Intersect	p. 160
Theories and Theoretical Vocabularies of Translation	p. 163
The Science of Translation	p. 168
Early Translation Studies	p. 172
Polysystem Theory	p. 173
Deconstruction (Or, Translation and the Vocabulary of Deformation)	p. 175
The Approach of the Translator	p. 181
Unto All Languages That Dwell in the Earth	p. 188
The Stance of the Translator	p. 188
Translating the Language of Translation	p. 198
Translation as Cure	p. 206
These are the Words	p. 209
What is the What?	p. 211
The Language of Approach	p. 211
The Language of Stance	p. 212
The Language of Filter	p. 213
Sustaining Fictions	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 218
Index of References	p. 237
Index of Authors	p. 239
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Sustaining Fictions Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation, and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible

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